8R Dia de los muertos

8R have been exploring the traditions of ‘Dia de los muertos’/ ‘Day of the Dead’ in Mexico, which in contrast to our Halloween is bright colourful and celebratory. This goes towards their Arts Award Explore and also their Asdan Transition Challenge Modern Foreign Languages qualifications. Pupils have been developing artwork through a variety of apps…

Funny Faces

The children from Birch class had great fun creating funny faces using clay. The children used natural resources to add features to the clay faces. They used their spoken language skills to discuss what they had made and what they had used. What a great way to add more interest to the trees in the…

LMI Bulletin Issue 464

Dear All   The latest LMI Bulletin is available now: https://www.supportinginspiration.org.uk/ne/lmi-bulletin-issue-464   This includes: Sunderland regeneration 5G rollout to create work in telecomms ONS latest on impact of coronavirus on the economy and society Shortage Occupation List Provisional 2019/20 apprenticeship data   Regards   LMI       Graham McCabe LMI Officer

World Mental Health Day

Thank you all so much for the donations that are coming into school. For more information about mental health and how to support your child/young person, please check out Young Minds website where there is a free helpline for parents and crisis text messaging service.   https://youngminds.org.uk/contact-us/

RRS Silver Award

Big day in school today. Very exciting news in school today! We have been attempting to gain the RRS (Rights Respecting Schools) Silver Award over the past year and today all the hard work and endeavour has been realised, as after a 3 hour meeting school was awarded the RRS Silver Award. This is a…

Mnemonics 8O

😯 Miss Oliver’s group entered into the RRS(Right’s, respecting School)competition and worked together with Mrs Devlin and Miss Lee with the children to make up a story to help them remember the Class Charter rights and their is 42 so it was a massive job. The class decided on using a mnemonics tool suggested by…